Egon Schiele
Austrian · b. 1890
Painting and Drawing
DESCRIPTION
Egon Schiele was an Austrian Expressionist painter and a protégé of Gustav Klimt. He is renowned for his intense, raw, and provocative figurative works and self-portraits, characterized by twisted body shapes and expressive, jagged lines. His prolific but brief career ended at age 28 when he died during the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic.